English Explanatory Dictionary

hydrothermal vent

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. a hot spring, on the floor of the ocean, mostly along the central axes of the mid-ocean ridges, where heated fluids emerge from fissures in the Earth's crust.

Word forms

hydrothermal vent hydrothermal vents

Related words

black smoker fumarole geyser white smoker
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